The .PRO Discussion

[InvisionTech]

It seems .PRO is slowly coming out of the cage with cheaper reg prices than they were a year ago and major registrars like netsol taking notice of the extension and promoting it.

Here are some that I picked up in last couple of days:

Alexandria.pro

Anchorage.pro

Arlington.pro

Belfast.pro

Birmingham.pro

Budapest.pro

Durham.pro

Fairfax.pro

Italian.pro

Lisbon.pro

Fire away with your regs after the relaunch on September 8th, 2008.

 

[terol]

New registrar working for .pro with good price:

Dominios .PRO en DonDominio.com :gl:

These guys are well known by Spanish domainers with excellent feedbacks...

 

[JoeBiz]

Chas, you should set up a Google Analytics account. Unless you know where your traffic is coming from, how long people are staying for, where your site ranks for different search phrases, and which links are sending traffic you have no idea what sort of value for money you are getting from your SEO.

If I had to estimate how many visitors your site got from the code, content, domain, links, page rank, search engine results etc, I would say virtually none. If you are getting 1,100 visitors per month, it surprises me. I would be concerned that whoever you are paying to do the SEO is bulk buying pop up traffic and sending a trickle to you.

Jay ... There's no seo work, or any work, being done to the site. It's just idling ... static. Most of the traffic comes from a few google images. Still increasing slowly for some reason. If I was paying someone to generate traffic I would be pretty disappointed with 1100 per month.

So far this month ... 1130 visits, 606 unique, most of them in and out within 30 seconds. Hostgator provides a lot of stats.

Back on the 19th you asked "is any of .pro's really making money parked or with minisites?" I can't address that with only one parked, but I can say that people avoid buying them like the plague. It's hard enough selling decent dot coms but when people get a look at the restrictions on pros they run the other way. That's my current experience with pros.

8^X

 

[b2b]

Alrighty guys, here are the latest sales by Sedo, published at DomainNameNews.com

books.pro $850
blinds.pro €3200

 

[akcampbell]

Blinds.pro was a great sale at 3,200 Euros. Well done to whoever got that.

 

[b2b]

Books.pro wasn't in my opinion. But I'd like to think the seller needed the money to pay rent.

 

[JoeBiz]

Andrew and Rick ...

If you listed Books.pro on sedo, or anything similar, how would you (or do you) set up your pricing options ... ???

- Make Offer

- Make Offer with a minimum offer listed

- Fixed Price (XX)

... and you're killing me with that avatar Rick.

8^X

 

[Soofi]

I think Books.pro went for Blinds.pro's price and Blinds.pro went for Books.pro's price..

 

[JoeBiz]

Hi Jay

Are these the types of mini sites that you develop? If so, which would be your first choice? Would like to talk about having a few put together. Thanks. Charles.



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[Soofi]

Hi Jay

Are these the types of mini sites that you develop? If so, which would be your first choice? Would like to talk about having a few put together. Thanks. Charles.

BESTPRINTERS.INFO
BIGANDTALL.INFO
CORDLESSTOOLS.INFO
STORAGEBOXES.INFO
STORAGECABINET.INFO
STORAGECABINETS.INFO
TENNISRACQUET.INFO
TENNISRACQUETS.INFO
TOOLCHEST.INFO

8^X

Chas, I do mainly static sites, when we talk about minisites.. however those domains are pretty much parked pages of sedo with feed pulled out from google's parking service (maybe because sedo has google adsense as a parking partner).

Not a big deal and can be done as well, but who are you going to partner with the ad link feed? If we tried playing around wit google's feed, you might get dinged an dor they might just block kyour adsense account for tampering with it. You know what I'm talking about, right!?

Jay

 

[akcampbell]

If you listed Books.pro on sedo, or anything similar, how would you (or do you) set up your pricing options ... ???8^X

I always use make an offer. That way you get bid history from lowballers and you have control over the price you sell at. If .pro restrictions were ever removed, I would want to reconsider my sale prices and if you have fixed prices you can't do that.

Interesting that Book.pro, Books.pro, eBook.pro, eBooks.pro, and Booking.pro have also sold.

I'm not completely surprised by the price Blinds.pro sold for in relation to Books.pro. If somebody is fitting blinds you want them to be a Pro but if somebody sells you a book, you don't have the same expectations about their Pro status, therefore it's less useful for branding purposes. The more people are hung up about Pro status or wowed by it, the better the branding angle is with .pro.

 

[Ben42]

I was showing 40-50 visits a day on one of my pro's through Sedo. I added google analytics and it's showing 0-1 visits a day.

 

[b2b]

Andrew and Rick ...

If you listed Books.pro on sedo, or anything similar, how would you (or do you) set up your pricing options ... ???

- Make Offer

- Make Offer with a minimum offer listed

- Fixed Price (XX)

... and you're killing me with that avatar Rick.

8^X

I have set all my .pro at "make offer" for the last year. Mostly I've received low ball offers, but also some $XXXX offers.

This year I might change a few to a "fixed price" whereas they can still offer as well.


Now about my avatar, I'm willing to lease her out per hour if you're interested .
She has turned quite a few heads here on NP....:hehe:

 

[Soofi]

Now about my avatar, I'm willing to lease her out per hour if you're interested .
She has turned quite a few heads here on NP....:hehe:

Wish that image was reality behind your account :lol:

 

[mwzd]

I saw a very clever use for a .pro recently.

Keyword.Pro for Keyword Production Co.

Another sales slant, there are a LOT of production companies of all types worldwide.

 

[JoeBiz]

I saw a very clever use for a .pro recently.

Keyword.Pro for Keyword Production Co.

Another sales slant, there are a LOT of production companies of all types worldwide.

I like that. Thanks Samit. Need to do a lot of research to find the right ones. There are thousands and thousands of them in film, video, commercials and three or four other categories. But I bought one anyway.

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[davidc]

I haven't been here for a long time now, but since I still havent done anything with my .pros I'm wondering what I could get for ex. advertise(dot)pro? Just some numbers to aim for...

 

[Soofi]

I'm wondering what I could get for ex. advertise(dot)pro? .

low-mid $xxxx, maybe?

 

[akcampbell]

Advertise.info sold for $1,500. There are 41 bids for Advertise.co.uk on Sedo. If you auctioned it on NP, I doubt you would cover cumulative registration fees from March 05. End user might be low $X,XXX but there is probably a 100-1 chance of achieving that each year unless you market it direct.

I see you own Sudoku.pro. I got a $500 bid for Puzzle.pro last week, the buyer said he "couldn't justify a penny more". Puzzle.com is for sale on Sedo for $2.75m and the guy likes the Puzzle Pro branding angle so much he has registered and is planning to develop Puzzlep.ro. He had been quoted $2,300 for PuzzlePro.com but that was "way more" than he was willing to spend. I did some research on the bidder, he is the CTO of an internet security company but has been working on a voluntary basis since the company ran out of money in May 2009.

I thought this was an interesting snapshot of the .pro aftermarket. Even when the equivalent .com is for sale at 7 figures and a potential buyer is so smitten with Pro branding they are prepared to develop a Romanian ccTLD, they still won't pay more than $500.

 

[davidc]

Advertise.info sold for $1,500. There are 41 bids for Advertise.co.uk on Sedo. If you auctioned it on NP, I doubt you would cover cumulative registration fees from March 05. End user might be low $X,XXX but there is probably a 100-1 chance of achieving that each year unless you market it direct.

I see you own Sudoku.pro. I got a $500 bid for Puzzle.pro last week, the buyer said he "couldn't justify a penny more". Puzzle.com is for sale on Sedo for $2.75m and the guy likes the Puzzle Pro branding angle so much he has registered and is planning to develop Puzzlep.ro. He had been quoted $2,300 for PuzzlePro.com but that was "way more" than he was willing to spend. I did some research on the bidder, he is the CTO of an internet security company but has been working on a voluntary basis since the company ran out of money in May 2009.

I thought this was an interesting snapshot of the .pro aftermarket. Even when the equivalent .com is for sale at 7 figures and a potential buyer is so smitten with Pro branding they are prepared to develop a Romanian ccTLD, they still won't pay more than $500.

Yeah, I got an offer for 1000 GBP in 2006 for Sudoku. I didnt sell then but I regret it now. I still havent done anything with it. Thats my biggest problem, my tumb up my a**.

Sound crazy to develop anything with a domainhack, especially when it ends with p.ro, most of the visitors will be visiting puzzle.ro and your domain.

 

[Dustie]

It's not at all hard to pick up .pro names if you are planning any sort of business. I make enough advertising income on my websites that I have to claim a modest income at the end of each year, so I went to my local county courthouse and registered myself, Dustie Meads, as a business.

That was enough to allow me to purchase some .pro names last year.

Renewals are coming due though, and I'm short of pocket, so I'm going to try to sell one of my names, graphicarts.pro, to help pay to keep my others. Anyone have any ideas on where and how to sell it or what to even ask so it? Or is it even worth trying?

(sorry for anyone who might have read this post earlier before I corrected my graphicarts domain from .com to .pro. Darn, we are just so brainwashed to type .com even when we know better!)

Dustie